HIGHLAND COUSINS

... her to kindness and even to gratitude; when he brought her some little bit of millinery ornament she was as pleased-as an infant with a new toy. Nor did he greatly deprecate the love of finery and the love of display that appeared to have gradually taken ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1894
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6782 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CREAM OF CURRENT LITERATURE

... He sang and he warblerd Oh, longing 'heart, wait I Though dim is the future, yet tindly is fate. Believe it and trust, 0 mortal, to be Replete with the dearest of treasure for thee. 8o hope has arisen and doubting is fled, Because of that song from ...

Advertisements & Notices

... hours, and declare the time to be twelve o'clock. But was it twelve o'clock No, it was only nine o'clock. What ools these mortals be ! Yea, verily ; and the candid and teach- able portion of us must ever think of it with sadness and humility. For what ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4824 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... is a entitled On the Sands, and the scene represents a epleasant seaside resort. Enjoying the air are a lady . nursing an infant, an elderly gentleman, and a naughty boy. Presently enters a figure, mechanically worked, erepresenting a nursemaid, wheeling ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1895
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8042 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TILE CILZS'iMAS NOVE

... genjrra. When thle jolly old actor ?? on tho stage, ruddy and inig b;earded. 'ire ;.ildrerr sent uip a great shiorut of welcome. Infant laughter should be Four trule critic of a 'an~tormime-shiould make Mr William Rignold the rtotunlest arnn happiest man in ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1894
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 24943 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES

... ance began so oarly as half-past seven. It was mid- night ere the wonders of the transformation scene were unfolded. For five mortal hours had the eye been feasted with beauty and the imagination charmed. It is exercising no prophetic gift to say that weeks ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1892
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 21688 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK. I.'~

... for Schools.-Nelson's Infant School Song-Book. No. 1. (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons.) A Student's Text-Book of Zoology. By Adam Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S. Vol. I. (Londoan: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.) Chambers's Object Lesson Book for Infant Classes and Standard ...

I LOVE THEE TRUE

... pleasure than to receive the dear child, and give her a taste of London gaieties. Emn went about as if in a dream. Jack was so mortally offended that he would scarcely snealk to her, but rode out day after day with Lady Ciementina; whilst Oliver Tracy, in the ...

NEW BOOKS

... meet prelude to the work, in which the author deals with literary and other celebrities, mazy of whomri she hls kuown. The mortal eareer of odt'rs Was terminated close, on half h century ago. As nadame Bellboc mixed to a largo extent in French society ...

AT THE SIGN OF THE STARTLED FAWN

... he ways a little ehap,` said Mr Fugcle, who had eupplied Eddington Hall with lamp-oil ever since the bresent uvner was an infant, and could I therefore speck with authority. The old lord couldn't, usually opeaking, walk eteadv after five o'clock, and ...

LORD TREDEGAR'S SHOW

... Price is. I'd. and 2s. 6d. tL9324 si ?? I idV1TAL STA¶ITICS. al Thle Reglstrsr-Geneltal reports thtthe annual) Iglrate of Mortality last week in 33 great towns of tb ?? and Wales averagedl1l-6perl1.000of their di ~ gpregvte populatiou. The ratte was in ...

LITERARY COMPETITION

... II- again. The strange experiences of that hi I- eight have had the effect of converting me fronew if the most sceptical of mortals in matters ghostly, ti Is to the most credulous and easily convinced. 1c seoing is bslieving,' an the saying goes, and ...